Are the hooded figurines timed quests?

[Neyreyan_Youtube]

The gold hood died after i wasted 20 minutes searching for his fish.
Please tell me if they are timed quests so i can ignore them and give the game a negative review

[Honorable_D]

Yeah they are timed. The rewards are just optional buff books though and even if they all die you can still get the all quests done achievement.

Curious why you'd throw a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and give a negative review over something as simple as this though?

[Neyreyan_Youtube]

Originally posted by Honorable_D:

Yeah they are timed. The rewards are just optional buff books though and even if they all die you can still get the all quests done achievement.

Curious why you'd throw a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and give a negative review over something as simple as this though?

thanks, its a negative review.
Well, it goes against 2 of my important principles:
1) you should be allowed to get everything in 1 run thus making 1 run very long
2)Timed quests are stupid but if they give you a timed quest without telling you and you waste time doing it, thats even worse.
Nothing is optional, it's just failed quests i didnt know i had to do

[Victor Psycho]

Fully concur, the same thing just happened to me.

[Honorable_D]

You can get 100% of achievements in 1 run though, even if they all die. No achievement is missable.

I do agree there should be an in-game warning that they are timed quests though.

[screaminidiot]

The guy says he's starving and wants fish. That's a warning.

[Rena Ichigawa]

Note, if op says he is starving, just don't let him eat for a couple days. He'll clearly be fine, snd healthy.

[Honorable_D]

Originally posted by screaminidiot:

The guy says he's starving and wants fish. That's a warning.

No, some of the robed men don't really allude to being starving and speak in a bizarre manner, so depending on the one you first talked to, you'd still have no warning.

[Rithrin]

To be fair, there is a shipwreck survivor stranded on an island that you can choose to leave and come back for later. He talks about how he doesn't think he was going to make it if you didn't come along. If you leave without him, he exclaims, "You're just going to leave me here to die?!". I took about 2 in-game weeks to come back and get him because my inventory was full with stuff I didn't want to dump and forgot about him. He was fine when I came back. So why do the robed figures die in a few days when a shipwreck survivor can last infinitely?

While it did annoy me that the first robed fellow I talked to died, I would only have cared if it affected my achievements, which it doesn't. The main issue is that it is inconsistent with the rest of the way the game is portrayed. It's not "realism" vs "preconceived expectations" or anything - it's whether the game logic is internally consistent. And it isn't. Some quests where you are told to hurry, you need to or something bad happens. Some quests where you are told to hurry, you can wait for weeks with no problem. Some quests where nothing is said about speed, you have to hurry. This gives the player mixed signals, and it leaves them only to guess as to whether time is important for any given mission, no matter what the text says. It's understandable why this really bothers some people.

I personally don't think it's game ruining, and can't see why someone would refund over it or even leave a negative review for it, but I can at least empathize.

[53 & still gaming]

I am not against timed quests per se, but it should be MORE clearly in the game that the quest is timed. I am a completionist and am also pissed that this quest now is gone forever. And I am not like playing the game (or any game) a second time through.

[Mntn Dwrf]

I am also disappointed in these timed quests, not because of the time, but because of the abyssal bottleneck. The guy in the gold robe wanted an abyssal fish before I had a rod of that type so I could catch the requested fish. Guaranteed to fail now.

[Fatty McBoomBoom]

I saved a stray dog, named him Captain Wiggles. Hearing his bark is the reason i boot up this game.

[Space Dad]

I had no idea it was timed until I went back and there was no way to give him his fish. There should be a timer or at least say you have so much time to complete it .

[krd]

Originally posted by screaminidiot:

The guy says he's starving and wants fish. That's a warning.

How have they been surviving this long? They must have packed enough sandwiches to last them on those islands.

[Aquillion]

The robed figures do not say they're starving (or at least the ones I spoke to don't.) And the way they talk about fish is more like it being a religious ritual they're performing rather than something they need to survive, especially since they need specific fish from their religious texts.

I don't really think there's any hint whatsoever that the quests are timed.

[Ballsaque]

I was surprised and somewhat disappointed when I found out the robes ones died because I didn't feed them the fish the wanted in time. However, it is a great motivator to do a second playthrough!

Giving a fantastic game like this a negative review because you have asinine rules is just dumb though.